“They targeted civilians, worshippers, women and the elderly. It only targeted those innocent people. This is a satanic terrorist act, carried out by apostates,” Hezbollah MP Bilal Farhat told AP.

“There’s a lot of shattered glass on the street, a lot of blood, and it’s really just a scene of chaos and carnage,” journalist Tamara Qiblawi told CNN shortly after the blasts.

While the world leaders called the terror strike in Paris an “attack on humanity and humanitarian values”; the world was “united to condemn terrorism”; there was social media outrage so much so that Facebook users were given the option to change their profile pictures to support France and the people of Paris; and mainstream media provided blanket 24-hour coverage of the event working overtime to report the minutest of details and flurry of emotions from ground zero, the massive terror attack in Beirut was ignored – by the very “humanity” that stood in solidarity with people of France. The bombings in Lebanon drew no tweet or statements from world leaders, no social media outrage, no 24-hour mainstream media coverage, and no global messages of solidarity and compassion with people of Lebanon.

The world and the media not only ignored the attack on humanity in Beirut, it also failed to notice a hero – Adel Termos – who made a split-second decision that saved countless lives. Termos was at the market with his young daughter. Neither of them survived.

“He tackled him to the ground, causing the second suicide bomber to detonate. There are many many families, hundreds of families probably, who owe their completeness to his sacrifice.”

Indian blogger Karuna Ezara Parikh responded to Beirut terror attack with a poem that has since gone viral:

It’s not Paris we should pray for, it is the world. It is a world in which Beirut, reeling from bombings … is not covered in the press. A world in which a bomb goes off at a funeral in Baghdad, and not one person’s status update says ‘Baghdad’ because not one white person died in that fire…

This Google Trends graph shows the bias – and what’s wrong with us – perfectly:UPDATE: In a Facebook post, Vice President of Growth Alex Schultz sought to tamp down criticism for rolling out the Safety Check feature for Paris and not for Beirut. Alex, however, couldn’t explain activating the color option for Profile pictures for Paris but not for Beirut.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces shot over a hundred Palestinians during West Bank and Gaza demonstrations the same day ISIS attacked Paris. According to Ma’an, Israeli forces “used rubber-coated steel bullets and 0.22 caliber bullets against the main instigators” after demonstrators in the occupied Palestinian territory and inside the neighboring Gaza Strip refused to halt. The news is nowhere on the mainstream or social media. Aren’t Palestinians counted as humans?